Table 2.1. Area (1000 ha) of vegetated land by landscape position and terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Treed Non-treed Other1 Total
Upland Wetland Total Alpine Upland Wetland Total
Taiga Plains 29 885.41 4 619.63 34 505.04 0.00 12 421.53 5 976.01 18 397.54 0.00 52 902.58
Taiga Shield 45 190.06 2 516.88 47 706.93 0.00 40 970.04 9 391.61 50 361.65 0.00 98 068.59
Boreal Shield 114 953.95 13 598.99 128 552.94 0.00 18 530.04 14 855.16 33 385.21 0.00 161 938.14
Atlantic Maritime 15 635.87 222.54 15 858.41 0.00 2 767.64 641.32 3 408.96 0.00 19 267.37
Mixedwood Plains 3 062.98 286.39 3 349.38 0.00 6 910.60 413.97 7 324.57 0.00 10 673.95
Boreal Plains 30 936.94 13 297.36 44 234.30 0.00 10 378.96 8 198.19 18 577.15 0.00 62 811.44
Prairies 2 046.89 36.19 2 083.08 0.00 41 606.27 750.60 42 356.87 0.00 44 439.95
Taiga Cordillera 6 332.28 120.83 6 453.10 460.80 11 527.66 366.97 12 355.43 0.00 18 808.53
Boreal Cordillera 18 376.41 627.64 19 004.06 1 150.59 12 753.00 828.06 14 731.65 0.00 33 735.71
Pacific Maritime 10 135.48 19.45 10 154.93 70.91 2 528.45 125.31 2 724.67 0.00 12 879.60
Montane Cordillera 30 224.76 167.73 30 392.50 524.68 8 658.82 527.82 9 711.32 0.00 40 103.82
Hudson Plains 8 750.22 11 064.98 19 815.20 0.00 2 929.08 11 393.55 14 322.63 0.00 34 137.83
Canada 315 531.25 46 578.61 362 109.86 2 206.97 171 982.10 53 468.57 227 657.64 0.00 589 767.50
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, revised 2006 baseline (Version 3, December 2013) (http://nfi.nfis.org)
Note: The Arctic ecozones (Arctic Cordillera, Northern Arctic, Southern Arctic), and the Taiga Plains and Hudson Plains ecozones located in Nunavut, are not inventoried. These non-inventoried areas total 262,189.89 thousand ha.
1 Missing, unknown or other landscape positions.